Thank you for a polite and well thought out response.

Your argument seems to be, since both party's are overly violent, they should be given equal merit. I disagree. The violence, no matter how deplorable, does not in any way alter or mitigate the basic facts of the Middle East. Israel is not intent on regional hegemony. They only want to live peacefully in the land that they are currently residing in. They want the right of self-determination. The Palestinians, on the other hand, want this and a little bit more. They want all the land of Palestine, and all the land of Israel to boot. One has only to look at the charters of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Fatah to see that this is true.

You can be sure I'll look it up. However, Barack's words really won't change things, as both you and I know.

But why don't they suicide bomb Egypt, or Jordan, or Lebanon? Why only Israel? The obvious answer is religious bigotry, on the part of the arabs. Which, in a word, is the cause of the problem in the Middle East.

Look, to draw a comparison, after 16 years, the United States left Vietnam. Even though we were trying to fight for a people's freedom, after 16 years, we said enough was enough. Let's stop fighting and have peace. But it's been 60 years in Palestine, and Palestinians are still fomenting hate and killing. That's all they do. At the risk of sounding glib, it's the national pasttime of Palestinians. The American Negro in America, who suffered much worse deprivations at the hands of his Southern slave-masters, did not go around randomly killing white people in retaliation at any point in American history. The Palestinians have been doing this even before Israel was a nation. Arabs have been killing Jews since 1929. My point is that there is an elephant in the room which good people of the West simply choose to ignore: Palestinians, by and large, are religious bigots who will not give an inch of land to another ethnic group, particularly the Jews.

Does that slogan claim ALL of the West Bank?

But Israel has returned land, even settled land, on numerous occasions. Why settle it? Because it's a bargaining chip for peace. How else do you deal with religious bigots?

My answer is, because they don't want to. If there had been enough people against the action in Iraq, the US would never have done it. There aren't enough people in Palestine who want peace. They want war. They want to martyr themselves on Israeli citizens.

Weak argument. This is the typical lie that the arab propaganda machine want you to look at. Proportional death counts do not necessarily make right. The US lost far fewer men than the Japanese in World War II, but the disproportion in fatalities doesn't necessarily mean that America was wrong. Israel has an obligation to protect its people. If the Hamas's murderers are inept and inefficient, that's their own fault.

In my opinion, there has been no radicalization of the Palestinian populace. They have been killing Jews since 1929, long before Israel was a state. Israel has become more callous, and some of its members have become radicalized. But the only way to deal with an animal is to cage it, and, in my opinion, the Palestinians are animals. They indoctrinate their youth in hate, they target and kill innocent women and children, and they export terror against governments who only support their enemy financially.


This will take some research.


I will.

And you.